Word: saddest
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...they enacted it as I wrote it, and it gave me the chills,” Fingleton says. “I remember at the time, even though I was only about 13, looking at my father terribly, hopelessly drunk, and I thought, ‘This is the saddest human being that I’ve ever seen...
...saddest part is, this was just the tip of the iceberg, a single moment that distills the utter douchiness of this school. Harvard is a university where the same resources are available to all of us, where we shouldn’t have to scratch and kick and claw to get what we need. Yet somehow, greed is the pervading ethos of this campus...
...Samoan heritage, is one of the creators of bro'Town, a satirical animated sitcom set in Auckland. The show's characters are mainly Pacific Islanders and Maori - who together make up 22% of the population and growing. "As any parent says, you're only as happy as your saddest child," says Kightley. "If you look at the statistics, the saddest kids in New Zealand are the brown ones. They are at the wrong end of too many indicators. That tells me we need to improve things from the bottom up. Doesn't that lift everyone?" Despite strong job growth, unemployment...
...death has made Colgan's personal pacifism surprisingly divisive. While Colgan and his wife Pat remain opposed to the war, Ben's widow Jill and other family members are equally ardent supporters. "I didn't think this would be so difficult," he says. "It's one of the saddest things. It's put a crimp in our relationships." Colgan says he sees very similar dysfunction in the national feuding over Iraq. "You've got the whole line that speaking out against the war is dishonoring the dead," he says. "It's stupid that we can't talk...
...Throughout their 20-minute conversation, DeFede says, he tried to steer the conversation to less volatile subjects in the hopes of lifting Teele's spirits. ?Again, he's got the saddest voice I've ever heard of with Art,? DeFede says. ?I tried to move onto a different subject - his upcoming trial on the bribery case and he had a good attorney.? But that line of conversation only prompted Teele to think about how he didn't have any money to pay his attorney fees. ??I'm dead in the water; I'm dead in the water,'? DeFede recalls Teele...